§ Mr. Robert Banksasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what information he has on the annual alcohol consumption per head in each of the member countries of the European Economic Community.
§ Mr. WaddingtonInformation on alcohol consumption per head is not collected on a regular basis by the statistical office of the European Communities. However the Brewers Society publishes information of this kind in its annual statistical handbook. Table K7 of the 1985 edition, a copy of which is in the Library, gives figures of alcohol consumption per head in 1984 in each of the European Community countries (excluding Luxembourg). The figures for individual countries are inevitably subject to the margins of error which are inherent whenever different sources of data of different qualities and using different definitions are brought together.